Uralkali increases output of potash in second quarter and first half of the year

3:07 AM MDT | July 3, 2014 | Natasha Alperowicz

Uralkali (Berezniki, Russia), one of the world’s largest potash producers, today announced its production results for the second quarter and first half of 2014. Uralkali produced 3.1 million m.t. of potassium chloride (KCI) in the April to June, period, compared with 2.4 million m.t. in the corresponding period of 2013. Output of KCl was also up in the first half of 2014 when the company produced 6 million m.t., 33% up on the first six months of 2013. Uralkali, in the center of a global potash turmoil last year following its withdrawal from a...